Every year, the ESPEN-ONCA-MNI Joint Session gathers experts to discuss ways to deliver better nutritional care to patients. During the 2018 ESPEN Congress, experts explored the theme ‘Nutrition without borders’ with an audience of 3800 healthcare professionals and looked at a recipe for good nutritional care across borders: screening for malnutrition, patient-centered guidelines, good practice sharing, and education were key ingredients to ensure optimal nutritional care for patients across borders.
Frank de Man, from the Optimal Nutritional Care for All Campaign (ONCA) reminded the audience of the importance of multi-stakeholder cooperation and invited the community to contribute to, and to use the repository of good practices available on the ONCA website.
In the words of André Van Gossum, ESPEN Chairman: “ESPEN is constantly engaged in developing state of the art clinical nutrition guidelines that translate the evidence base into quality care to meet patients’ needs. Many guidelines are in the pipeline in 2018 and 2019, which will undoubtedly contribute to the improvement of clinical practice.”
Nicola Bedlington, Secretary General of the European Patient Forum, stressed the need to involve patients “To improve patient care across countries, we need internationally approved guidelines focusing on care that is respectful of individual patient needs and values and this is only possible by involving the patient at all levels.”
Tim Meyerhoff, closed the Joint Session with the announcement of the 2018 MNI Grant Winner awarded to the Spanish Society for Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition (SENPE). More information on MNI Grant is available here.
For more information about the ESPEN-ONCA-MNI Joint Session please visit the webpage: https://medicalnutritionindustry.org/news/events/event/mniespen-2018/
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